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Re: off-topic: abuse@zipcode.atg.aol.com resolver problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Dec 1 22:16:01 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 22:09:33 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Brent Sims wrote:
> You might be able to get away with telling sendmail to masquerade
> as either your's or your ISP's domain. But you can still have some
> problems if you changed your machine name - I've got a lot of AOL
> subscribers on a mailing list and I had a hard time figuring things out
> but now that I have all my mail gets past all the spam filters. My
> sendmail masquerades as my ISP, my email clients use my domain name
> instead of the machine name, and my machine is named localhost...
That doesn't let me send to others at the same ISP.
It trys to deliver locally.
Using hostname hjanc.localdomain works fine though:
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.9.9 hjanc.localdomain hjanc
Using sendmail without changes.
Using fetchmail to grab incoming mail.
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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